Alain Rayes is Scheer's new Quebec lieutenant

June 25, 2017

Alain Rayes is Scheer's new Quebec lieutenant

Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer has chosen Alain Rayes, the MP for Richmond-Arthabaska and the rookie who helped him woo Quebec voters during his party's leadership race, as the new political lieutenant for the province.

The recently minted leader celebrated Quebec's Fête nationale with Rayes in Victoriaville, a town 160 kilometres northeast of Montreal, Saturday.

After he was recruited by the Tories so that the party could regain lost seats in Quebec, Rayes was elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 election.

Before that, the Victoriaville native served as mayor of his hometown from 2009 until his jump into federal politics. Rayes, 45, was also a candidate during Quebec's 2003 provincial election under the now dissolved Action démocratique du Québec party.

With deep ties to his hometown, the new lieutenant also holds a Master's degree in school administration and worked at as the principal of the Polyvalente Le Boisé school in Victoriaville.